idk I was thinking federated social media was pretty peachy at the start of the year but with the total failure of the mastodon project to implement basic trust & safety features to keep black people from facing torrents of racism on there it might be cooked
Mastodon was a mistake because it tried to be like Twitter and Twitter was never good
Mozilla has decided to copy the most valuable part of Google’s business strategy: having a large product graveyard
I’ve always considered the federated stuff too clunky. Only data should be federated, presentation should be unified. As with newsgroups.
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I’m of two minds. On one hand I agree, it’s gotta be dead simple. On the other hand I think the public is more capable than it seems. People figured out email and the mess that is Windows. The fediverse just feels like a lot because it’s new. Some better branding is in order though, like your example of not using the word “instance”.
I often think it would be better to obfuscate the federation aspect altogether. Most users don’t need to know or care that a post or user came from another instance. But I think that path will ultimately be more confusing than just having the small learning curve.
presentation should be unified
This is basically the “All” sort on lemmy isn’t it? And since Lemmy devs are responsible for the algorithm that functionally determines what shows up there they have ultimate control over what rises to the top and what does not.
important to note mozilla is keeping their mastodon.social account, just not their instance experiment
